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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BESIDE THE BED, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone has shut the shining eyes, straightened and folded Last Line: This is only a most piteous pretense of sleep! | |||
Someone has shut the shining eyes, straightened and folded The wandering hands quietly covering the unquiet breast: So, smoothed and silenced you lie, like a child, not again to be questioned or scolded; But, for you, not one of us believes that this is rest. Not so to close the windows down can cloud and deaden The blue beyond: or to screen the wavering flame subdue its breath: Why, if I lay my cheek to your cheek, your grey lips, like dawn, would quiver and redden, Breaking into the old, odd smile at this fraud of death. Because all night you have not turned to us or spoken It is time for you to wake; your dreams were never very deep: I, for one, have seen the thin, bright, twisted threads of them dimmed suddenly and broken, This is only a most piteous pretence of sleep! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FARMER'S BRIDE by CHARLOTTE MEW ARRACOMBE WOOD by CHARLOTTE MEW IN THE FIELDS by CHARLOTTE MEW MONSIEUR QUI PASSE: QUAI VOLTAIRE by CHARLOTTE MEW MOORLAND NIGHT by CHARLOTTE MEW ON THE ROAD TO THE SEA by CHARLOTTE MEW |
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